Professor Paid $10G to Prove Ayers Wrote Obama’s Autobiography

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Report: Professor Paid $10G to Prove Ayers Wrote Obama’s Autobiography
An Oxford professor was reportedly paid thousands of dollars to prove that Barack Obama's autobiography was written by former domestic terrorist Williams Ayers, according to a report in the Sunday Times of London.

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Sunday, 2008-02-307

An Oxford scholar was reportedly paid $10,000 to review Barack Obama's autobiography to determine if it was ghost written by former urban terrorist and associate William Ayers, according to the Sunday Times of London.

Dr. Peter Millican -- a distinguished philosophy professor at Hertford College in Oxford, England -- was offered the money by Robert Fox, a California businessman and brother-in-law of Republican congressman Chris Cannon, the paper reported Sunday.

Millican was reportedly paid to use a computer software program to find suspected similarities between Obama's best-selling 2004 autobiography "Dreams from My Father" and Ayers' memoir "Fugitive Days."

But Millican called the charges "very implausible" after a preliminary review of the two works.

"I thought it was extremely unlikely that we would get a positive result. It is the sort of thing where people make claims after seeing a few crude similarities and go overboard on them," Millican told the Sunday Times.

The Oxford professor said Fox indicated that Cannon got "cold feet about it being seen to be funded by the Republicans."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5063279.ece

Professor Paid $10G to Prove Ayers Wrote Obama’s Autobiography